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Title: Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America by Michael Tonry ISBN: 0-19-510469-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An informative read
Comment: In his book, Tonry delineates the state of crime in the U.S. in a well-developed disscussion of crime policy, rates, and philosophy.
However, though he makes many good points, the book tends to offer explanation that tend to lean far to the right and try too hard to expose data that he purports has been manipulated.
While his ideas are good, he doesn't effectively address numerous policing strategies or propose substantive inniatives to reduce crime.
Instead, he seeks softening sentencing and extirpating "just-desert" policies. He doesn't purpose much philosophical or empirical evidence to back his claims.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mastery of the Institutional Racism that is everywhere
Comment: Michael Tonry takes an in-depth look into the racism that permeates every level of the criminal justice and law enforcement institutions in this country. Tonry's book covers racial profiling, racially targeted crime policy, the unnecessary War on Drugs, punishment, sentencing policy, and the like. Reading Malign Neglect can lead to the basest of conclusions: that "The Burden on Black Americans" is vast and deeply entrenched.
Tonry's discussion of the history behind the War on Drugs, while leaving out the Nixon input, faults policy makers who knew the disparate impact it would have on black Americans. Seeing that when the official war on drugs was launched, the overall drug use in the country was decreasing, yet there was a change in norms, illustrates just how calculated the negative effects of the "war" were. The only population where drug use was not on an overall decline was the disadvantaged inner city populations. Therefore, with increased surveillance and increased punishment, it is malign neglect to assume all people will be treated equally by this "war."
Tonry does an excellent job explaining that there are no unfortunate accidents in terms of policies that over target African Americans. He makes the point that it is such policies that lead to the disintegration of communities based on the over-incarceration of black men. Tonry does not imply that crime should be ignored, but that it is un-Constitutional to target races for policies designed in the veil of universal.
Tonry supports jury nullification which is the setting free (with the exception of violent crimes) black defendants as a method of evening the score, so to speak, for the mistreatment of blacks by the justice system to date.
Tonry explores many issues that answer topics that Randall Kennedy attempts to tackle in "Race, Crime, and the Law. I would recommend reading them together.
Rating: 5
Summary: A tremendously important book
Comment: "Malign Neglect : Race, Crime, and Punishment in America" is one the more revealing and informative books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. In looking at America's racist crime policies over the last couple of decades, Tonry illucidates what has been a virtual war against minorities and the poor.
Tonry effectively points out that the elite intelligensia who have crafted these racist programmes knew exactly that they were scapegoating minorities - specifically young Afro-American men. A tremendously important book in terms of understanding the history of class conflict and racism and their current guises as manifest in contemporary society.
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Title: Confronting Drug Policy: Illicit Drugs in a Free Society by Ronald Bayer, Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Milbank Memorial Fund ISBN: 0521446627 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice by Craig Reinarman, Harry Gene Levine ISBN: 0520202422 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Race, Crime, and the Law by Randall Kennedy ISBN: 0375701842 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System by David Cole ISBN: 1565845668 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System by Jerome G. Miller ISBN: 0521598583 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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